From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 14 10:49:29 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 603E2169 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:49:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.lhr1.as41113.net (mail.lhr1.as41113.net [91.208.177.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C5A1767 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.16.240.11] (unknown [212.9.98.193]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: lists@rewt.org.uk) by mail.lhr1.as41113.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3f3T1q0YRYz7vXM for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52D5162D.5020609@rewt.org.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:49:17 +0000 From: Joe Holden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Showing CDP info in ifconfig? References: <52D50065.8060907@fsn.hu> <52D50E53.7000405@smartspb.net> In-Reply-To: <52D50E53.7000405@smartspb.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:49:29 -0000 On 14/01/2014 10:15, Dennis Yusupoff wrote: > May be implement that functionality in ndp utility, as far it named > after Neighbor Discovery Protocol? > > 14.01.2014 13:31, Bjoern A. Zeeb пишет: >> No. Neither would lldp or other protocols. That’s what a higher level >> management user interface is for. I’d be happy to finally see someone >> do this in an abstracted way so it could be a cli, a Web interface, or >> some xml-rpc thingy or whatever is the standard of the day. ifconfig >> is not the place, especially since it would have to query a daemon >> running somewhere else anyway. Otherwise we’ll end up with ndp, ospf, >> isis, bgp, ipsec, and the apache, varnish, and squid status there as >> well. Just my 2cts. > That is an even worse place to implement it, since NDP is essentially IPv6 ARP. This should probably be in userland, GPL utilities already exist but there are/were some performance hits (not sure if the BPF writers patches fixed anything, or if they got merged in the end).